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Re: [opensuse] I give up!
- From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:28:16 -0500
- Message-id: <200701292128.16224.bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 29 January 2007 08:17, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
> time/situation comes up, although I very much doubt I will be fooling
> around with Mandriva anytime soon. Maybe it's their way of making people
> buy the non-free version?
I missed how Mandriva came into this conversation, but it caught my attention
because I just installed Mandriva 2007 powerpack. It's very nice, definitely
worth a look.
Probably the most interesting feature I noticed was the inclusion of LinDVD,
the licensed DVD player! It's by Intervideo, the same company that produces
WinDVD. Imagine my stunned disappointment when it failed to run, seemingly
because of a programming error. The error message referred to an error on a
certain line number. How in the world could Mandriva include a totally broken
application in the distro? And it's an application that probably receives the
most attention from users!
So it was off to the PLF repositories for the usual codecs, etc. and good old
mplayer, which worked fine.
I plan to use Mandriva for a while to get a better idea what it is like in
actual usage.
Sadly, my test of Suse 10.2 only lasted a few days. Overall I thought it was
nice, but I just could not tolerate the slowness of the package management
system. Times of 30 minutes were not unusual just to add 1 new program (in my
case). Every time it goes through this endless process of scanning each
repository before I can even do anything. I have to go away and do something
else while waiting for it to be ready to search for a new program! In Kubuntu
the average time (in my case) is 5 minutes.
Package management is so fundamental, I think it does not matter how nice the
rest of the distro is if its package system is not well-designed.
Bryan
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> time/situation comes up, although I very much doubt I will be fooling
> around with Mandriva anytime soon. Maybe it's their way of making people
> buy the non-free version?
I missed how Mandriva came into this conversation, but it caught my attention
because I just installed Mandriva 2007 powerpack. It's very nice, definitely
worth a look.
Probably the most interesting feature I noticed was the inclusion of LinDVD,
the licensed DVD player! It's by Intervideo, the same company that produces
WinDVD. Imagine my stunned disappointment when it failed to run, seemingly
because of a programming error. The error message referred to an error on a
certain line number. How in the world could Mandriva include a totally broken
application in the distro? And it's an application that probably receives the
most attention from users!
So it was off to the PLF repositories for the usual codecs, etc. and good old
mplayer, which worked fine.
I plan to use Mandriva for a while to get a better idea what it is like in
actual usage.
Sadly, my test of Suse 10.2 only lasted a few days. Overall I thought it was
nice, but I just could not tolerate the slowness of the package management
system. Times of 30 minutes were not unusual just to add 1 new program (in my
case). Every time it goes through this endless process of scanning each
repository before I can even do anything. I have to go away and do something
else while waiting for it to be ready to search for a new program! In Kubuntu
the average time (in my case) is 5 minutes.
Package management is so fundamental, I think it does not matter how nice the
rest of the distro is if its package system is not well-designed.
Bryan
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